Winter clock issues in linux

[Amichay P. K.]

tnx, my machine is ok :)


2013/9/7 Hetz Ben Hamo <hetz �� hetz.biz>

> Shimi, 2013-c2 updates (available for centos 5.x/rhel 5.x) should be
> sufficient too.
>
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> 2013/9/7 shimi <linux-il �� shimi.net>
>
>>  On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 8:45 PM, Geoff Shang <geoff �� quitelikely.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Apologies for not reading the rest of my mail but I wanted to answer
>>> this.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, 7 Sep 2013, Amichay P. K. wrote:
>>>
>>>  Will the Israeli winter clock changes have any effect in linux?
>>>> Do you consider it safer to change the location to Greece?
>>>> http://www.themarker.com/**technation/1.2111316<http://www.themarker.com/technation/1.2111316>
>>>>
>>>
>>> I'm running Debian Squeeze and the timezone database is fine.  But I do
>>> subscribe to Debian updates.
>>>
>>> If you want to be sure, run this command:
>>>
>>> tzdump -v Asia/Jerusalem |grep 2013
>>>
>>> It should output something like this:
>>>
>>> Asia/Jerusalem  Thu Mar 28 23:59:59 2013 UTC = Fri Mar 29 01:59:59 2013
>>> IST isdst=0 gmtoff=7200
>>> Asia/Jerusalem  Fri Mar 29 00:00:00 2013 UTC = Fri Mar 29 03:00:00 2013
>>> IDT isdst=1 gmtoff=10800
>>> Asia/Jerusalem  Sat Oct  5 22:59:59 2013 UTC = Sun Oct  6 01:59:59 2013
>>> IDT isdst=1 gmtoff=10800
>>> Asia/Jerusalem  Sat Oct  5 23:00:00 2013 UTC = Sun Oct  6 01:00:00 2013
>>> IST isdst=0 gmtoff=7200
>>>
>>
>> And if you have Geoff's output, then your clock would be moving at the
>> wrong time[1] :)
>>
>> This is with a really up to date timezone data:
>>
>> $ /usr/sbin/zdump -v /etc/localtime | grep 2013
>> /etc/localtime  Thu Mar 28 23:59:59 2013 UTC = Fri Mar 29 01:59:59 2013
>> IST isdst=0
>> /etc/localtime  Fri Mar 29 00:00:00 2013 UTC = Fri Mar 29 03:00:00 2013
>> IDT isdst=1
>> /etc/localtime  Sat Oct 26 22:59:59 2013 UTC = Sun Oct 27 01:59:59 2013
>> IDT isdst=1
>> /etc/localtime  Sat Oct 26 23:00:00 2013 UTC = Sun Oct 27 01:00:00 2013
>> IST isdst=0
>>
>>  (you can use "Asia/Jerusalem" too, but make sure /etc/localtime indeed
>> contains the content of /usr/share/zoneinfo/Israel or
>> /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Jerusalem - or a symlink to one of them.)
>>
>> You need version *2013d* of the database if you want the latest Israeli
>> law.
>>
>> -- Shimi
>>
>> [1]
>> http://www.justice.gov.il/NR/rdonlyres/FCE198C8-66FD-4AA8-AB9D-958264583207/41529/2401.pdf#page=8
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